7 Oct 1993
ATTORNEY GENERAL v. DINH VAN TUAN
- Citation
- ATTORNEY GENERAL v. DINH VAN TUAN
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMP3387/1993
The court exercised its discretion to order continued detention of 20 named respondents under Section 32(4)(b) for a period not exceeding 21 days from 8 October 1993 because the public interest in ensuring a major criminal trial proceeds and the reasonable prospect that the witnesses would give evidence within the proposed period outweighed the respondents' private liberty interests; detention must be limited to the period reasonably necessary to achieve that purpose and reviewed afresh thereafter.
- Detention of witnesses
- Repatriation
- Discretionary detention orders
- Statutory interpretation of s32(4)(b)
- Right to liberty vs public interest in administration of justice
- Legal aid